Public sector employees benefitted most from the boom. It is only fair that they pay their fair share now.
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Oh really? All those builders, property developers, people charging through the nose for doing work on your house, private sector workers showing off in front of, and laughing at ,public servants and wondering why on earth we were willing to work for such crap salaries when they were minting it, weren't benefitting from the boom? Some of the strides Public Servants made were due to the fact that their salaries were absolutely abysmal to start with. Also, there's a difference between people paying their fair share and being scapegoated and having across the board cuts imposed on them regardless of grade or area of the public service they work in. You have said, yourself, on other threads that it's not necessarily fair.